Annotate

Annotate turns any moment on the web into a shareable page. Highlight a passage from an article. Pick a 90-second range from a YouTube video. Clip the punchline of a podcast. Write your take. Publish a permanent, beautifully laid-out page that links back to the source — so anyone you share it with can see exactly what you saw, with your commentary attached. It's the alternative to screenshotting + tweeting + losing the thread three days later. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHAT YOU CAN CLIP • Any web article — highlight the passage, write your annotation. • Any YouTube video — pick a start/end inside a 90-second window. The clip gets extracted at 360p, hosted permanently, and embedded in your page. • Any podcast or video with an audio track — clip just the audio if that's the part that matters. Each clip becomes its own page at annotate.metisos.co/clip/your-slug, with your commentary, the source link, a pull quote, and supporting context. Share the URL anywhere — Twitter, Slack, email, group chat. The clip plays inline. The commentary is yours. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ HOW IT WORKS 1. Install the extension and pin it. 2. Open any video or article. Click the Annotate icon. The side panel opens. 3. Pick your moment. Write your take. Hit publish. That's it. No accounts to manage on the page you're reading. No extra tabs. No copying URLs around. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ AI THAT HELPS, NOT REPLACES Toggle AI Assist on and the Annotate Agent reads what you clipped and drafts an annotation in your voice. You edit before publishing — you stay the author. The draft is a starting point, not a substitute. For YouTube videos, "Suggest moments" watches the video and proposes 3–6 clip-worthy ranges with one-line labels. Tap one to adopt its range, or use it as inspiration and pick your own. Every published page also gets context: 3–5 corroborating or contradicting sources from the open web, pulled in automatically and cited. You can disable enrichment per-clip if you prefer the raw take. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHY ANNOTATE INSTEAD OF SCREENSHOTS • Screenshots strip context. Annotate keeps the source link and timestamp. • Tweets disappear into a feed. Annotate clips have their own URLs. • Quote tweets lose nuance. Annotate gives you a full editorial page — pull quote, commentary, related sources. • Group-chat links go stale when the source moves. Annotate clips are hosted, with the moment preserved exactly. Every clip is laid out automatically with its own visual identity — eight themes, accent colors, pull quotes, and typography pulled from the moment. It feels like a hand-set editorial page, not a generated card. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHAT THE EXTENSION NEEDS • sidePanel — the entire UI lives in Chrome's side panel. • activeTab — reads the active tab's URL, title, and your text selection only when you click Annotate. • scripting — injects a small capture script into the active tab on click. • storage — remembers your signed-in account locally. • Host access to annotate.metisos.co — so the side panel can call our backend. The extension never reads pages in the background. It only captures the active tab, only when you click. You sign in with Google. We don't sell your data. We don't run third-party ads or trackers on the published pages. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ OPEN SOURCE & OPEN PROTOCOL Annotate is open source: github.com/metisos/annotate. Published annotations are queryable as a cognitive-tier USC v1 platform, meaning your clips can be discovered (with the author handle as attribution) by other tools that speak the same protocol — semantic search, topic clustering, related-clip surfaces. Your commentary stays yours; the platform makes it findable. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ GET STARTED 1. Add Annotate to Chrome. 2. Visit annotate.metisos.co and sign in with Google. 3. Open any video, podcast, or article. Click the Annotate icon. Clip. That's the whole flow. The feed at annotate.metisos.co/feed shows what others are clipping. Follow people whose taste you trust. Questions, bugs, feature requests: cjohnson@metisos.com. Annotate is a fast-moving v0.1. Expect things to get better every week.